Dr. John H. Dearborn (1933-2010)
- Ph.D. in Biological Sciences, Stanford University, Stanford, California, U.S.A., 1965
- M.S. in Zoology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, U.S.A., 1957
- B.A. in Zoology, University of New Hampshire, Durham, New Hampshire, U.S.A., 1955
Dr. Dearborn was a Distinguished and Emeritus Professor of Marine Sciences at the University of Maine.
Biography from The University of Maine's website:
"Professor Dearborn’s career in Zoology and Marine Sciences at University of Maine from 1966 to 1999 continued long after his official retirement, and his writing and interest in marine animals, especially echinoderms, continued until his death. Dearborn’s fieldwork, begun as a modern pioneer in Antarctic marine biology in the 1950s, took him to many interesting, though mostly cold, locations, including the Antarctic, the Arctic and the Juan Fernandez Islands off the Chilean coast, in addition to a number of dives on research submersibles in the Gulf of Maine."
Relevant to the biota of the Gulf of Mexico, Dr. Dearborn has published the following:
Messing, C. G., and J. H. Dearborn. 1990. Marine flora and fauna of the northeastern United States. Echinodermata: Crinoidea, NOAA Technical Report, National Marine Fisheries Service 91: 1–30.